Lon Chaney.     Photograph: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Lon Chaney [Quasimodo], Patsy Ruth Miller [Esmeralda], Norman Kerry [Phoebus de Chateaupers], Kate Lester [Madame de Gondelaurier], Winifred Bryson [Fleur de Lys], Nigel de Brulier [Don Claudio (Dom Claude)], Brandon Hurst [Jehan], Ernest Torrence [Clopin], Tully Marshall [El Rey Luis XI], Harry van Meter (Harry von Meter) [Monsieur Neufchatel], Raymond Hatton [Gringoire], Nick de Ruiz [Monsieur le Torteru], Eulalie Jensen [Marie], Roy Laidlaw [Charmolu], W. Ray Meyers [Charmolou’s assistant], William Parke Sr. [Josephus], Gladys Brockwell [Sister Gudule], John Cossar [judge of the court], Edwin Wallock [Luis XI’s chamberlain]; Joe Bonomo [stunt double], Jay Hunt, Harry De Vere, Cesare Gravina, Pearl Tupper, Eva Lewis, Jane Sherman, Helen Brunneau, Gladys Johnston, Elmo Lincoln, William O’Rourke, George MacQuarrie [?] (or Albert McQuarrie?)

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Universal Production]. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr., from an adaptation by Perley Poore Sheehan of the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. Art direction by E.E. Sheeley and Sydney Ullman. Assistant directors, Jack Sullivan and William Wyler. Photographed (cinematography) by Robert Newhard, with additional cinematography by Tony Kornman. Edited by Sydney Singerman, Maurice Pivar and Edward Curtis. Music score arranged by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Carl Laemmle (Sr.). / © 6 September 1923 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP19381]. Premiered 2 September 1923 at the Astor Theatre in New York, New York. Released 6 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Bonomo performed as a stuntman for Chaney. The film was twelve reels long in its original roadshow version. A scene with actor Coy Watson Jr. was edited from the film before release. Edmonds-BigU p. 122 notes that the film was twelve reels long in its original roadshow version.

Drama: Historical.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.2624.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Film Preservation Associates film holdings [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections.

Keywords: Authors: Victor Hugo - Bells - Cathedrals - Crowds - Deaf persons - France: Paris - Hunchbacks - Mobs - Priests

Listing updated: 24 June 2009.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.2624; Blake-Films p. xiv; Bohn-Light p. 97; Brownlow-Parade pp. 290, 578; Cary-Hollywood p. 47; Drew-Speaking pp. 137, 143-145, 159, 280; Edmonds-BigU pp. 9, 55, 69, 74, 78, 79, 107, 119-120, 121-123, 125, 129, 130, 132, 135, 136, 139; Everson-American pp. 182, 182e; Fell-History p. 86; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 14, 15, 42; Jewell-RKO p. 138; Kerr-Silent pp. 8, 31; Keylin-NYTimes p. 114; Lahue-Collecting pp. 27, 49; Lahue-Gentlemen pp. 48, 54, 147; Leish-Cinema p. 58; Limbacher-Feature p. 115; Maltin-Guide p. 589; Manchel-Terrors pp. 46-47, 54, 76; Marrero-Vintage pp. 6, 19, 20, 22, 30; Schuchman-Hollywood pp. 31-32, 111; Sherwood-Best p. xix; Shipman-Cinema p. 79; Slide-Aspects p. 85; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 26, 28, 49, 68, 123; Watson-Keystone p. 308; Weaver-Twenty p. 77; Webb-Hollywood pp. 93, 165 : AmerCine-199510 p. 100; ClasIm-223 p. 47; ClasIm-226 p. 59.

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